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Copying x-box games...
flap:
quote:1. You can argue to the RIAA that buying a CD is like buying a plane ticket.
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Why would anyone argue that? When you buy a plane ticket you're still paying for a service that's limited by how many seats the plane has, how many planes are flying etc. "Limited" is the key word. Thus the amount of money an airline receives from ticket sales is proportional to their outgoing costs (fuel, staff, planes etc).
quote:You're paying for the contents of the cd, not the actual plastic disc.
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Actually, technically you're paying for neither. As you say, you're not really paying for the physical disc (the cost of that is negligible). You're not paying in order to compensate the seller (artist, record label) for the cost you're causing them to incur, as (physical distribution cost aside) they still do the same amount of work whether they sell 10 or 10000 units.
It's like if I build a road and then charge everyone a toll when they drive down it, even continuing to do so after I've got back my money and made a nice profit. You can't argue that the drivers are paying me for any tangible thing - I'm charging them simply because I can.
[ February 28, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
Annorax:
quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
I find it funny how easy it is to copy games made before cd burners were common. You can easily burn Quake and Quake 2, or Sim City 2000 and Sim City 3000.
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Or Freespace 2 :D
restin256:
Now do you wonder why I haven't played anything made after 2001 or so?
preacher:
quote:Originally posted by restin256:
Now do you wonder why I haven't played anything made after 2001 or so?
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I made the effort to actually purchase linux versions of games, and now I have about 7 native linux games for my pc. Its too bad that they don't make a lot of native linux games. I play Return to Castle Wolfenstein daily and I look to get the native linux version of Sim City 3000.
I really like making back up copies of games since it seems like the install disks always end up getting trashed.
Refalm:
quote:ThePreacher: I made the effort to actually purchase linux versions of games, and now I have about 7 native linux games for my pc. Its too bad that they don't make a lot of native linux games. I play Return to Castle Wolfenstein daily and I look to get the native linux version of Sim City 3000.
I really like making back up copies of games since it seems like the install disks always end up getting trashed.
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UT 2004
Play their Linux demo, it's kewl.
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